9 Lives
First Death

Zee cried in the arms of his grandmother, in front of the funeral of his parents, at a young age at the age of 8 years Zee had to lose the love of his father and mother.

Zeevanya Larasati his full name, he does not know how death can pick up his father and mother. All he knew was that Uncle Akbar had brought the bodies of his parents home from the city, no matter what happened to them. And now the grandmother had brought Zee late in front of the two tombstones where his father and mother, where both parents rested for all eternity.

Zee brought her mother's favorite tulip flower to put it on her mother's grave while sobbing. No relatives were present at the funeral, no neighbors were present there only Zee and the grandmother. Either because his home is remote away from the city or indeed he feels he never had a neighbor.

"Let's get our Zee home!" said the grandmother embracing Zee's shoulder and taking her to get away from there.

"Zee still wants to be here, Grandma" said Zee, sobbing his mother's tombstone.

"It's getting dark today, son, we should go home tomorrow if you want us to come here again" said the grandmother.

Finally Zee obeyed the orders of the grandmother despite the weight he stepped and always turned to the tomb of his father and mother he continued his journey home.

***

Zee lives in a small village far from the city even though his father works in the city but Zee never goes to the city. Although his mother once said the father had taken him to a park in the city as a child but Zee never felt his memory, until his parents' death, Zee had not been able to go to the city with them.

Zee was swinging in his school yard, the elementary school that only had fifty students was very quiet.

"Hi Zee, would you like to have lunch with me?" invite Lia a child the same age as Zee , only Lia who wants to be friends with Zee because according to others Zee is a scary child with his loneliness.

"Mmmm I'm not hungry." said Zee.

"Well, I'll just eat here, will you?" ask Lia.

Zee nodded, continuing to swing while looking towards the park at his school.

"You want my mom's tuna sandwich?" Lia thrust her supplies at Zee.

"No need, you just eat, I said I'm not hungry." said Zee refused Lia's provisions politely.

"All right then I'm eating this whole thing." Lia directly devoured the sandwich of her fiance.

"Meow.. meow..."

"Did you hear Lia?" ask Zee.

"Yes the sound of a cat, like a kitten, well that sounds not far from here." said Lia.

"I'll look for him." said Zee down from his swing.

Zee searches for the origin of the cat's voice and eventually finds a black-haired kitten caught in a ditch.

"You stink so much" said Zee after lifting the kitten out of the ditch.

"Where are you going Zee?" ask Lia.

"I'll take him home."

"School isn't over yet, is it?"

"Do you think I can take him to class?"

"Of course not, Miss Aaron will definitely punish you hahahaha."

"Then say my regards to Aaron's mother."

Zee smiled and then walked up to his bike holding the black kitten towards his house.

"Ah you basic Zee.. It's over I was asked a question by Miss Aaron." grumbled Lia.

Zee brought a bicycle to school because the distance of his home school is a bit far and there is no public transportation that passes through his village.

"Pull little pussy, be still don't move, don't scratch me, you can make us fall."

said Zee while controlling the speed of his bike that began to be unstable.

Tin.tin..tin...

The sound of the car horn surprised Zee coupled with a flash of lights that dazzled Zee's eyes, making Zee oleng could not control his bike so that the Van car that appeared from the front of his Zee hit Zee fell.

Zee slumped to the ground, his head hitting a boulder on the ground was spitting out fresh blood from his rear shell. His nose and ears also drained fresh blood, Zee's body fluttering until he finally fell unconscious. His two hands were still clutching the small black cat that protected him from the deadly collision earlier.

A woman opens the car door and goes down to see Zee at a glance.

"How about this, we have to help the boy?" said a woman who panicked while pacing - mandir biting his nails.

"Let's go. Nobody saw us" said a man from inside the van in a panic.

"But..."

"Nothing but, quick that I don't want to deal with the authorities, do you want to go to jail?"

The woman shook her head in fear and then got into the van that closed the door of the car that immediately drove away leaving Zee who was lying helpless until his last breath.

***

Next morning.

"Yyyyyyyyy... " Zee woke up in his room and immediately reflected on seeing all parts of his body touching his cranium which was still fine unharmed.

"What's the matter, my dear?" the grandmother approached Zee.

"Grand what happened to me?"

"Nothing happened to Zee, are you dreaming?" ask the grandmother.

"I didn't dream Grandma, yesterday's events were real." Zee ran for his bike and found his bike crumbling in the warehouse behind his house with his grandmother following him.

"Here, I don't dream about Grandma?" zee pointed to his destroyed bicycle.

"Meow..."

"Well, that's the black cat, how could he be here? I don't dream Grandma, yesterday I got hit by a van and died."

Amelia's grandmother simply stared at Zee, then walked into the house.

"We have to move out of here" said the grandmother.

"Grandmother hasn't answered my question instead saying we're moving on, what's really going on Grandma?" Zee shakes his grandmother's shoulder.

"So your behavior young lady shouldn't have you treating your grandmother like this."

"I'm sorry grandma I just feel so confused" said Zee sadly.

"Couple your stuff now, we'll move!"

"Can't I say goodbye to Lia?"

"No, don't you meet anyone here again!" Grandma Amelia walked into her room taking out a big suitcase from there.

Apparently the grandmother had packed neatly before and put the big suitcase on top of her pick up car. Amelia's grandmother also tidied up some of the items and loaded them onto the car.

"Hurry up Zee when we don't have much" said Amelia's grandmother.

"Can I bring the cat?" ask Zee.

"You should take him, because he's your guardian."

"I mean grandma?"

"It's going to be explained later on the trip, we have to move from here immediately."

Said Grandma who was still busy tidying up all the items she was about to take away.

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